Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Something left over, not forming part of a set. · An odd number.
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. · Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre. · Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched. · Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”). Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon”) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("point").
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- Inherited-form mentionoddeenm
- Derivation mentionoddinon · odd, third or additional number; triangle
- Derivation mention*uzdazgem-pro · point
- Derivation mention*wes-ine-pro · to stick, prick, pierce, sting
- Cognate mentionoddiis · triangle, point of land, odd number
- Cognate mentionuddasv · odd
- Cognate mentionodda · point of weapon
- Cognate mentionoddenb · a point”, “odd”, “peculiar
- Cognate mentionordang · a point
- Doublet mentionorden
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